Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love-life.
BURGESS, Anthony.
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love-life.
First Edition of Nothing Like the Sun; Inscribed by Anthony Burgess to Walter Sullivan
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1964.
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Item Number: 150047
First edition of this fictionalized, stylistically experimental reimagining of William Shakespeare’s life. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to literary critic and fellow author Walter Sullivan, “with fondest possible regards Anthonie Burgesse.” The recipient, Walter Sullivan was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature, and one of the founding members of The Fellowship of Southern Writers. Burgess participated in an April 1967 literary symposium at Vanderbilt, and presumably the book was inscribed for Sullivan around that time. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) was an English novelist, critic, and composer whose work is marked by linguistic experimentation, formal ingenuity, and sustained engagement with moral and philosophical questions. Best known for A Clockwork Orange (1962), Burgess combined interests in music, linguistics, and literary history across a wide-ranging body of fiction, criticism, and biography. Nothing Like the Sun (1964) is Anthony Burgess’s experimental novel that reimagines the life of William Shakespeare through a fictionalized, psycho-biographical lens. Structured as a sequence of episodic vignettes, the novel blends archaic pastiche with modern linguistic play to explore themes of erotic obsession, artistic creation, and bodily suffering, particularly through its speculative portrayal of Shakespeare’s relationships and possible illness.
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